Tail-piece for violins



(No Model.)

E. RUNESTROM.

TAIL PIECE FOR VIOLINS. No. 393,034. Patented Nov. 20, 1888.

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u. PETERS. Fiwlvulhugmphur. Washm UNITED STATES PATENi rric o ERIK RUNESTROM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TA IL -PIECE FOR VIOLINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,34, dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed May 2], 188- T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERIK Runnsrnon, a citizen of Sweden, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tail -Pieces for Violins and other Stringed Instruments, of which the following, taken in connection with the accom panying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in tail-pieces for violins and other stringed instruments, and it is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 represents a front elevation of the improved tail-piece. Fig. 2 representsa rear view of the same, and Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section on the line A B, shown in Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

United States Letters Patent for violins were duly issued to me March 1, 1887, No. 358,573, in which a series of spools adapted to contain the lower portions of the strings were used, such spools being laid loosely in recesses in the tail-piece of the instrument and confined in their places by means of hinged covers provided with suitable locking devices, such arrangement, however, being liable to render the tailpiece heavy and complicated, and as one of the st-ringsthe E string, which is the finest-is more liable to break than the others, I have made the following improvement on my aforesaid patent.

a in the drawings represents the tail-piece of aviolin or other stringed instrument, having perforations b 0 (Z c, with their grooves I) 0' cl 6, as usual, for securing the lower ends of the strings.

' f is the lateral projection or bridge near the upper end of the tailpiece a, as usual.

Below the perforations b 0 (Z c, I make, in the front of the tail-piece a, a recess, a, adapted to receive the flanged string-carrying spool g, the flanges of which are provided with projections g g, adapted to fit in corresponding recesses in the body of the tail-piece a, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, such flange projec- Serial XoQTLGJS. (No model.)

tions serving to prevent the spool from turning round and to keep it stationary when placed in the recess a. The flange projections 9 g and corresponding recess in the body of the tail-piece a are arranged to extend to or near the place where the string E, for which the spool is intended, is led from the tail-piece to the other parts of the instrument. Upon the spool g is wound the lower portion of the string E, and the end of such string is secured in any suitable manner to said spool. After being adjusted, the spool is held in place in the recessed tail-piece by means of the pin or bolt 72, passing through a perforation in the said spool and a corresponding perforation in the tailpiece. Said pin or bolt has in its front end a head or knob, h, to enable the operator to manipulate it when re moving or replacing it. After the spool is inserted in the recessed tail-piece and the pin or bolt it passed through it and the tailpiece a said pin is secured to the tail-piece by means of the fastening-hook '6, the upper eudof which passes through a hole or slit in the rear end of pin 72., as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The lower end of said hook i is preferably pivoted at 2 to the rear of the tail-piece a, and provided in its upper end with a lip or projection, 2', projecting to one side of the tail-piece, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, for the operator to take hold of when manipulating said hook. Any other or equivalent fasten ing device may be used to secure the pin or bolt h in place without departing from the es sence of my invention.

In case the string E should break,it is only necessary to withdraw the hooked end from the pin 71, when the latter and its spool 9 can be removed from the tail-piece and a suiticient amount of string unwound from spool g to enable the upper end of said string to be attached to the tuning-pin in the upper end of the instrument, after which the spool g is replaced in its recess a and the pin it secured by means of the hook z or similar device.

\Vhat I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim, is

The tailpiece a of a violin or other stringed instrument having recess a, combined with the flanged spool g, adapted to hold the string E, and having stop projections gg', adapted scribing witnesses, on this 8th day of April, to fit in corresponding recess in the taii- A. D. 1887. piece, and bolt 01' pin h, passing through the x O L spool and taltpiece, and fastening device for RUNDSPR 5 securing said pin in place, as set forth. Vitnesses: I

in testimony whereof I have signed my name ALBAN ANDREN,

to this specification, in the presence of two sub CHAS. N. CONANT. 

